The Open
IPTV Forum has signed liaison agreements with the Digital Living Network Alliance
(DLNA), the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) and the European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI) to further drive for an interoperable end-to-end IPTV solution
for Managed Network and Open Internet deployments in a global market.

These liaison agreements underline the Forum’s commitment to use existing and emerging
technologies and specifications from standardization bodies and other industry associations.
DLNA, DVB and ETSI specifications are the base for major parts of the Open IPTV Forum
Release 1 specifications and the setup of these working relationships will foster
the cooperation with these organizations, ensure proper reuse of specifications and
further drive the alignment of the various IPTV specifications which is an important
target for mass market IPTV deployments.

OIPF LogoThe liaison agreements allow for regular information exchange, the participation
of observers and joint promotion activities in areas of mutual interest which center
around all aspects of IPTV services delivered via Managed Networks, the Open Internet
and the Home Network. They cover work on requirements, architecture, protocols and
interoperability testing for media formats, meta-data, content delivery, network control,
application execution environments and content and service protection among others.

These liaison agreements follow the establishment of the Open IPTV Forum as an Association
in Germany (eingetragener Verein) earlier this year. They mark the next step of the
Forum to deepen its ties with other organizations active in the IPTV area and will
be followed by the establishment of similar partnerships with other relevant organizations
over the next year.

DLNA

Members of Digital Living Network Alliance share a vision of an interoperable network
of personal computers, consumer electronics, mobile devices and service providers
in and beyond the home, enabling a seamless environment for sharing and growing new
digital media and content services. Founded in 2003, the group established and maintains
a platform of interoperability based on open and established industry standards that,
when used by manufacturers will support the sharing of media through wired or wireless
networks. More than 200 multi-industry companies from around the world have joined
DLNA, committing the time and resources necessary to achieve their vision. DLNA’s
2009 Promoter Members include: ACCESS, AwoX, Broadcom, Cisco, Comcast, DIRECTV, Ericsson,
HP, Huawei, Intel, JVC Kenwood Holdings, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, NXP, Panasonic,
Philips, Pioneer, Rovi Corporation, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba. Additional information
about the Alliance, its participating companies and membership benefits is available
at www.dlna.org.

DVB Project

The Digital Video Broadcasting Project is an industry-led consortium of over 250 broadcasters,
manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others
committed to designing global standards for the delivery of digital television and
data services. DVB standards cover all aspects of digital television from transmission
through interfacing, conditional access and interactivity for digital video, audio
and data. The consortium came together in 1993 to create unity in the march towards
global standardization, interoperability and future proofing.

DVB dominates the digital broadcasting environment with thousands of broadcast services
around the world using DVB’s open standards. There are hundreds of manufacturers offering
DVB compliant equipment. DVB standards are also widely used for other non-broadcasting
applications such as data on the move and high-bandwidth Internet over the air.

Further information about DVB can be found at: www.dvb.org, www.dvb-h.org, www.mhp.org
and www.dvbworld.org.

DVB is a registered trademark of the DVB Project.

ETSI

ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies
(ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadcast and internet
technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards
Organization. ETSI is an independent, not-for-profit association whose 717 member
companies and organizations, drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents worldwide,
participate directly in its work.

For more information please visit: www.etsi.org

The ETSI logo is a trademark of ETSI registered for the benefit of its Members.

Open IPTV Forum

The Open IPTV Forum e.V. is a pan-industry initiative with the purpose of producing
end to end specifications for IPTV that will take the next generation of IPTV to the
mass market. The forum is fully open to participation across the communications and
entertainment industries.

Today the Open IPTV Forum e.V. has many members that have joined the effort to develop
this “tool”, an open, end to end specification for IPTV based upon existing technologies
and open standards that could help to streamline and accelerate deployments of IPTV
technologies and help to maximize the benefits of IPTV for consumers, network operators,
content providers, service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and home
and network infrastructure providers.

For more information please visit: www.oipf.tv

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KIT
digital has formed an operating joint venture agreement with Buenos Aires and
São Paulo-based, Latinstock Digital,
to jointly market products and services to clients in Latin America and throughout
the KIT digital global network.

Latinstock Digital is a subsidiary of Latinstock, a commonly-owned consortium of companies
based in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Spain and other Latin markets.
Latinstock, founded in 1986, is the largest and most diversified content distributor
for the advertising and editorial industries in Latin America. It maintains local
subsidiaries in nearly every national market in the Spanish-speaking world, as well
as Brazil, and has long-term alliances with key producers in the digital content industry
globally, such as Corbis Corporation, Magnum Pictures, and Image Source.

Latinstock serves thousands of clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela and other regional markets.
In the digital asset management sphere, existing Latinstock partners include Data
Stock, Mambo Post, MP Advanced and Global Encode.

The agreement will initially focus on the territories of Brazil, Argentina, Mexico
and Chile, with opportunities to widen the scope during the early stages of implementation.
Under the agreement, KIT digital will serve enterprise Latinstock clients and client
prospects that require on-demand, hosted video asset management and Latinstock will
serve KIT digital clients and client prospects that require photographic content,
film footage, video encoding, transmission and decoding, video production and post-production
services. This combined menu of services will be jointly marketed by KIT digital and
Latinstock Digital through a common sales force, using common sales collateral.

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Adobe announces
the extension of the Adobe
Flash Platform to connected digital home devices with an optimized implementation
of Flash technology that delivers HD video and rich applications to Internet-connected
televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living
room. Major System on Chips vendors, OEMs, cable operators and content providers including
Atlantic Records, Broadcom, Comcast, Disney Interactive Media Group, Intel, Netflix,
STMicroelectronics, The New York Times Company, NXP Semiconductors, Sigma Designs,
and others announced support for the optimized Flash technology today. The Adobe Flash
Platform for the Digital Home is available immediately to OEMs and the first devices
and SoC platforms with support for the optimized Flash technology are expected to
ship in the second half of 2009.

The Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home now enables the delivery of HD Web videos
to digital home devices via the Flash Video (FLV) file format. Consumers will be able
to enjoy rich, interactive viewing experiences and amazing new ways to engage with
HD content on televisions. Flash technology-based applications will allow users to
quickly switch between television programming and Web content outside the Web browser.
With the optimized implementation of Flash technology, content providers are able
to extend their reach to millions of connected digital home devices, and cable operators
and device manufacturers are able to develop new services and powerful user interfaces
that deliver immersive experiences. A preview of Adobe Flash technology for digital
home devices is being shown in the Adobe booth (SL3320, South Hall) and during Adobe’s
NAB Super Session today.

Delivering Flash technology to the digital home builds on the vision of the Open
Screen Project, a broad industry initiative to deliver a consistent runtime environment
across devices. Announced in May 2008, the initiative is dedicated to enabling Web
content and standalone applications across televisions, desktops, mobile devices and
other consumer electronics that take advantage of capabilities of the Adobe Flash
Platform.

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Alcatel-Lucent has
been chosen by SK broadband to supply and maintain its IP service routing solution
to support the operator’s real time IPTVservice. Alcatel-Lucent’s cutting-edge IP/MPLS
technology will enable SKbroadband to deliver advanced broadband services including
real time IPTV services, high-definition television, video-on-demand, voice over IP
and high-speed Internet access, all with superior service quality.

SK broadband has the highest broadband penetration rate in Korea and a multi-year
strategic plan to deploy advanced IPTV services to its end users throughout the country.
Alcatel-Lucent will supply a flexible and reliable IP/MPLS infrastructure, providing
massive scalability, bandwidth on demand as well as increased service level guarantees.

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SecureMedia has
been accepted as a member in the Open
IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to take IPTV to the
mass market. The Open IPTV Forum’s goal is to develop and promote an open, end-to-end
specification for IPTV based upon existing technologies and open standards that could
help to streamline and accelerate deployments of IPTV technologies and help to maximize
the benefits of IPTV for consumers, network operators, content providers, service
providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and home and network infrastructure
providers.

Yun Chao Hu, Chair of the Open IPTV Forum, commented: “I am very pleased to see the
commitment of the digital content security industry towards the Open IPTV Forum. SecureMedia
is a very valuable asset towards the Open IPTV Forum along with the current OIPF membership
from the digital content security industry. This will emphasize the availability of
the right expertise within the Forum to address one of the fundamental requirements
for a global mass-market deployment of IPTV.

“It is an honor for SecureMedia to be accepted as a member in the Open IPTV Forum
and to bring our years of digital content s ecurity expertise to this cross industry
initiative, said Fred Ellis, COO of SecureMedia. “Championing our mission of ‘Enabling
Entertainment Everywhere!’, we are excited to collaborate with others to accelerate
rich, easy-to-use entertainment experiences across a myriad of consumer appliances
all based on open standards.”

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